Huangsha Pass is far less famous than Pingyang Pass, Qianfeuille Pass, Baisheng Pass, and Xiongge Pass, but it is the northernmost Guancheng of Dazheng. The Guancheng, which was built with loess rammed from local materials, stood on the waist of Luopan Mountain, like a powerful fist blocking the road of the nomads to the south.

Hu Jianzheng, the town general of Huangsha Guan, stood on the checkpoint in military uniform and looked north, the yellow sand was long, and he couldn't see the edge at a glance. The caravan in the distance is like a thin line winding north, going north and south, stepping out of a trade road in the yellow sand and Gobi.

Yesterday, Lord Chen, who sent an envoy to the Northern Desert, came back and brought back the good news that the second prince of the Northern Desert entered the customs in July to ask for marriage, Hu Jianzheng secretly breathed a sigh of relief, it seems that this big battle cannot be fought. Although being a soldier is not afraid of fighting, it is always good to be able to not die.

Hu Jianzheng's hand stroked from the ribs, six years ago the ribs there were cut off by the sharp blade of the Northern Desert wolf, and he would still think of that battle in his dream, the arrows flew like locusts, the flesh and blood flew sideways, and the cold light flashed the knife shadow would still wake him up from the dream, covered in a cold sweat, and the wound was faintly painful.

The general died in a hundred battles, and the soldiers relied on bloodshed in exchange for meritorious service, and many of the robes that fought together in those years have become white bones in the yellow sand outside the city, and the cold wind slid through the hollow white bones, making a strange whistling sound, such as crying and complaining, the most heartbreaking.

Hu Jianzheng's hand slapped the loess on the battlement mouth hard, and the rough feeling revealed the heaviness, which made Hu Jianzheng's heart become steady, just like when he was plowing in the farmland, his father and mother looked at him with a smile.

The city wall has just been built at the beginning of the year, the battlements have also been heightened, the top of the city wall is paved with a few feet of green bricks, and the loess that has been poured with glutinous soup is cut out with a knife will only leave a shallow mark, which is very strong, Hu Jianzheng is looking at the north and his eyes have become cold, if those Hu Qi dare to come, they must let them taste the bitterness.

"General, drink water", a hairy soldier handed over the water bag. The thin hairs on the lips are immature, and he was less than twenty years old when he was a soldier to eat food, and it has been almost twenty years in a blink of an eye.

"Son, where are you from?" Hu Jianzheng took a sip of water and handed the water bag back to the soldier.

"General, I am from the same township as you, both from Huazhou, you can call me Ah Hu." The soldier replied with a grin, his smart eyebrows and eyes revealing cleverness.

Ah Hu, Hu Jian is thinking of his son at home, and his wife wrote to say that this kid reads well and has passed the county exam.

Hu Jianzheng's eyes flashed with joy, and a contradictory thought flashed in his heart, maybe he could fight a battle with the north and make some achievements, and he would be able to become a regular lieutenant of Zhaowu on the sixth grade, and even be promoted to a guerrilla general, and after two years, he would be able to transfer to the local government to be a state Sima and spend a few days with his family.

The wind blew the flag fiercely, and Hu Jianzheng's eyes swept over the soldiers, all of whom were good sons and daughters of iron. He has 2,000 soldiers under his command, and in February, the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate sent another 1,000 recruits, and Ah Hu is this batch of recruits.

Under the guard of 3,000 men and horses, Hu Jian was recalling the letter written by his son in his mind, and there were four words in it that were very good, solid as gold, and what people who had read the book said was good.

"General, look".

A roar interrupted Hu Jianzheng's reverie, and Hu Jianzheng looked north, and the smoke and dust rose into the air in the distance, condensing but not dispersing. Hu Qi is coming.

"Sound the trumpet, close the door, and light the beacon fire." Hu Jian was ordering loudly, a cruel smile flashed at the corner of his mouth, it's time for me to be promoted.

Pushing the stunned Ah Hu aside, Hu Jian was striding towards the arrow tower, and ordered a veteran beside him: "Shi Daring, look at this kid, don't let people be injured by random arrows." ”

The poignant horn sounded at the yellow sand pass, the red pine gate about a foot thick was closed heavily, the jack gate fell, and the dust was sprinkled on the soldiers at the city gate, and no one was in the mood to slap it.

The panic spread in the pass, and after a while, the official road to the south was already filled with all kinds of vehicles, and the crowd carrying various burdens continued to merge into the torrent of the south, and the big war came.

On the city wall, the initial panic passed, the running and shouting of the soldiers became tense and orderly, bows and arrows, rolling logs, stones and other defensive equipment were pushed to the head of the city, the beacon fire had been lit, and the straight wolf smoke was transmitted all the way, sending a message to the Anbei Protectorate two hundred miles away, where 60,000 elite soldiers were stationed.

As long as you hold out until tomorrow afternoon, reinforcements will arrive.

The smoke and dust gradually approached, and the brown leather armor on Hu Qi's body deepened the color of the yellow sand. Hu Jian was squinting and trying to distinguish the pattern on the flag, which was a bear. The heart is lighter, it is not the wolf head, which means that it is not the Northern Desert Royal Court that is going south, but the tribe under the royal court, and the combat power is not as good as the wolf head army of the royal court.

Lu Guangzong, the deputy town deputy beside him, was obviously relieved, spat at the city, and said with a smile: "The head of the bear, is it the head of the Ashi Department, or the bull head of the Hun Branch." General Hu, this is to send us war exploits, the new 100,000 arrows in the treasury are taken out and used, the court has made a bloody investment this time, and we have to give the old men of the military department a face. ”

The relaxed attitude of the guards infected the soldiers around them, and the veterans loudly boasted about their exploits to Xinding. Shi Daring said to Ah Hu: "Wait and learn from me, stick to the battlement, and don't let Hu Ren's arrows hit." I'll do whatever you want you to do. ”

Ah Hu's face was a little pale, and he forced a smile: "Brother, you can look at me, why is my leg a little trembling, I don't listen to the call." ”

The gravel on the ground shook to the sound of horses' hooves, and a lizard fled in terror, still not escaping its fate of being trampled into flesh. Tens of thousands of iron hooves stepped on not only smoke and dust, but also shocks people's hearts.

The galloping horses came like a tide, and the yellow sand could feel the strength of the impact, Shi boldly pulled Ah Hu to squat, shrunk and leaned under the battlement, Ah Hu looked around in horror, most of the people were squatting under the battlement, General Hu and General Lu still stood up straight and looked outward, and several guards with shields surrounded them to protect.

The tide deftly split into two a hundred paces away, pouring horizontally to both sides, and countless black locusts rose into the air, densely rushing towards the city.

The sound of "tuk tuk" was like a torrential rain, Ah Hu felt that the entire Huangsha Pass was trembling under the rain of arrows, a sharp arrow fell behind him, and the arrows quickly burrowed into the mud and disappeared, followed by the second and third, and the Huangsha Pass was full of arrows.

The screams sounded from time to time, and Ah Hu saw that Kuanzai, who lived in the same sentry shed as him, was hit by an arrow in his shoulder, his body was crooked, and then several arrows were shot on his body.

The rain of arrows lasted for half a column of incense, and Ah Hu hooked his head and didn't dare to listen, look, or think, but felt that his heart was about to jump out, and it was very uncomfortable to beat "pounding".

"Get up and shoot back." With a heavy leg on his body, Shi Daring shouted angrily: "Don't fucking breed, shoot arrows down"

Ah Hu found that the robes on the edge of the battlement had already stood up under the general's order, and bent their bows to counterattack the city. Struggling to stand up, Ah Hu bent his bow and looked down at the city, the yellow dust was rolling, the figures were building, and he couldn't see the appearance of the Hu people clearly in the panic, let go of his hand, and the arrow shot downward, and he didn't know if he had been shot.

The arrows only intertwined into a dense web in the air, and the Grim Reaper smiled fiercely in the center of the net, harvesting fresh life.

Ah Hu couldn't care about being afraid, and mechanically bent his bow to shoot arrows, and from time to time arrows swept past his ears and heads with a whistling sound, and someone fell down and dragged away the robe beside him, leaving a vacancy that was immediately filled.

"Be careful not to let the rocks hit." The roar sounded in his ears, and Shi Daring didn't think about it, and pulled Ah Hu back under the battlement.

The entire Huangsha Pass suddenly shook, and the battlement not far away collapsed under the impact of a boulder, and someone fell off the gate. As soon as Ah Hu closed his eyes, he fell into the city at this time, and it was difficult to survive if he didn't fall to death.

The body was shaken upside down, and a stone close to the foot fell not far away, leaving a pit mark on the solid surface of the city, and tumbling against the battlement on the other side. Ah Hu took a breath, this stone is at least fifty catties, and if it is hit, the bones will be broken.

Shi Daring saw Ah Hu trembling, and said with a smile: "Don't be afraid, there are not a few stones outside, and they will stop after a while." ”

"The city rush is coming, don't let the city rush close." Hu Jianzheng's hiss floated at the head of the city, and Ah Hu stood up with Shi boldly in a daze, only to see four roof-like things slowly advancing towards the city eighty paces away.

In an instant, countless arrows shot towards the storming cart, and the weed-like arrows stuck in the roof, the storming cart still slowly pressed forward. The roof of the shed was covered with several layers of cowhide, which could not be penetrated by arrows, and the people hiding at the bottom of the shed were not injured at all.

"With rockets! Winch crossbow launch calibration! ”

The arrow was tied to the back of the oil-soaked linen, and it immediately ignited on the brazier, and pierced the storming car like a meteor, and puffs of black smoke came out of the roof of the storming car, apparently the cowhide was coated with anti-flame potion, and the rocket had no way to stop the storming car for a while.

Sixty steps, fifty steps......

With a "squeak", the winch crossbow finally opened with difficulty under the combined force. On the yellow sand is the winch crossbow of eight stones, which requires six wrestlers to turn the winch to wind. The strings are fastened to the teeth, and the loader begins to place the bolts.

The crossbow arrows are as thick as a child's arm, with wood as rods and iron pieces as feathers, and huge arrowheads are flat and chiseled. There are three arrows on the crossbow arm, which hold three "chisel arrows". The crossbowman in charge of the firing raised a sledgehammer and hammered the lower plate with all his strength, and three huge arrows flew out with a roar.

Obviously, the moment of the winch crossbow appeared a little slower, and most of the huge arrows flew past the top of the storming cart, and pierced heavily more than a hundred paces away. Heavy arrows flew out, bringing a bloody rain all the way, and an unlucky fellow was nailed to the ground with men and horses.

Only an arrow pierced through the top of the cart and easily tore the leather off the roof, blood shot from under the cart, and the people pushing the cart were strung with sugar gourds, and the cart stopped.

The other three rushing carts slowly approached the city wall, and the two of them hugged the thick wooden pound and hit the city wall heavily, and the huge impact force made many soldiers at the head of the city unstable. Soldiers came out from under the car, some with bows and arrows shooting at the head of the city, others with shovels and began to dig up the roots of the city walls desperately.

"Pour hot oil. Boy, go and help. ”

Ah Hu was hit by another leg, and hurriedly jumped up and ran towards the oil pot on the shelf. This is not a joke, if the generals think that they are greedy for life and afraid of death, don't think about their military achievements, and their lives may not be saved.

The hot oil poured from the city, and the screams immediately rang out, and Ah Hu's nose smelled the smell of burnt meat, and he couldn't help but spit it out.

The oil hit the rocket, the smoke billowed out, the car was ignited, and the city was filled with fireworks.